Our reviews
53 fiction books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
53 reviews match
David R Anderson
Best for: Readers who grew up on classic D&D-lineage heroic fantasy — elves, quests, creature rosters, and campfire camaraderie — and who want a warmly traditional coming-of-age adventure with genuine emotional interiority at its centre.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Readers new to Terry Pratchett or the Discworld Death sub-series who want a comic fantasy with genuine narrative stakes, a surprisingly poignant central character, and no prior series knowledge required.
Michael McAvennie
Best for: WWE fans who lived through the Attitude Era and want a well-sourced, densely packed tribute to Stone Cold Steve Austin — and anyone looking for a smart gift for a wrestling devotee who marks "3:16 Day" with appropriate reverence.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Readers new to Discworld — particularly those drawn to the graphic novel medium — who want an accessible, visually driven entry into the City Watch strand of the series, with its blend of underdog comedy and sharp political satire.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Fans of the Discworld Witches subseries — particularly those already fond of Granny Weatherwax — who want satirical fantasy that wraps genuine philosophical stakes about faith, mortality, and free will inside sharp, momentum-driven comedy.
Dav Pilkey
Best for: Young readers aged 7–10, particularly reluctant or struggling readers already following the Dog Man series, who want humor-packed adventure with organic themes of self-belief, integrity, and perseverance.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Readers who enjoy fantasy comedy with genuine philosophical depth — particularly those drawn to questions about myth, belief, and the stories societies tell themselves, delivered through Pratchett's darkly satirical Discworld lens.
Matt Dinniman
Best for: Fans of the Dungeon Crawler Carl novel series who want a visual, comics-format companion to the franchise, or sequential-art readers looking for a substantial, author-sanctioned entry point into one of LitRPG's most acclaimed universes.
Usborne
Best for: Teenagers aged 14 and up — particularly those navigating mental health challenges, new social environments, or a dawning curiosity about feminism — who want a character-driven story that takes their inner lives seriously without being relentlessly heavy.
Simon James Green
Best for: Readers who want a loud, chaotic, laugh-out-loud YA comedy with genuine emotional stakes beneath the mayhem — particularly those who enjoy awkward, endearing British protagonists navigating identity, family chaos, and the horrors of adolescence.
Rick Riordan
Best for: Middle grade readers aged 9 and up — especially those who find school difficult or who have been diagnosed with dyslexia or ADHD — who want a fast-moving adventure that smuggles Greek mythology into a recognisably modern American landscape.
Primo Levi
Best for: Readers drawn to literary fiction that takes skilled work seriously as a subject in its own right — particularly those already in Levi's orbit who want to encounter him at his most humorous and life-affirming, away from the shadow of Auschwitz.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Existing Discworld fans — particularly those already fond of Rincewind — who want a fast, funny, mythologically irreverent audiobook listen with a standout three-narrator cast (Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, and Bill Nighy).
Mick Foley
Best for: Dedicated WWE Attitude Era fans who have already read Have a Nice Day! and want Foley's candid, firsthand account of his championship peak, retirement, and the cultural controversies surrounding the WWF.
Patrick Stewart
Best for: Readers who want a warm, wide-ranging account of one of Britain's most distinctive careers — whether they come to it as Star Trek fans curious about the man behind Picard, theatre lovers drawn to six decades of RSC and Broadway work, or general memoir readers with an appetite for transatlantic stories of upward mobility and artistic ambition.
Michael J. Fox
Best for: Readers drawn to celebrity memoir or illness narrative who want an account that balances Hollywood candour with genuine emotional weight — particularly those with a personal or professional connection to Parkinson's disease.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Discworld fans — particularly those following the Death sub-series — who want a funny, emotionally resonant satire of rock-and-roll culture, and newcomers looking for an accessible entry point into Pratchett's world.
Philos Fablewright
Best for: Readers who want their fiction to carry genuine philosophical weight — those drawn to idea-driven, parable-like novels that use one character's unraveling as a lens for examining existence, technology, and humanity's future.
Lynn Painter
Best for: Romantic-comedy devotees — teens and adults alike — who want a high school romance that gleefully stacks every beloved trope (fake dating, enemies-to-lovers, the big misunderstanding) while also sneaking in a genuinely affecting grief subplot.
Jeff Kinney
Best for: Middle-grade readers in grades 3–7 who are already devoted fans of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and want a milestone-aware, multi-threaded Greg Heffley adventure that rewards their accumulated familiarity with the cast and formula.
Gary Gerlacher
Best for: Readers of medically grounded crime fiction who want a series protagonist with genuine occupational credibility — an ER physician turned amateur investigator — and enjoy thriller narratives that balance dark criminal stakes with lighter, episodic workplace humour.
Bella May
Best for: Readers who enjoy high-concept romantic short fiction and want a complete, feel-good office body-swap story they can finish in a single sitting on their Kindle.
Charles Yu
Best for: Readers of formally adventurous literary fiction who are drawn to culturally urgent satire — particularly those interested in race, Hollywood representation, and the Asian American immigrant experience — and who are willing to engage with a novel that deploys screenplay structure as its central argument.
Julia Donaldson
Best for: Parents, caregivers, and nursery educators seeking a rhythmically rich, read-aloud picture book for children aged two to five who are ready to engage with a satisfying trickster story built on repetition, pattern, and comic suspense.
